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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)003
Keywords
Extended Supersymmetry; Supergravity Models
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-76SF00515]
- German-Israeli Project cooperation (DIP)
- German-Israeli Foundation (GIF)
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The coefficient of a potential R-4 counterterm in N = 8 supergravity has been shown previously to vanish in an explicit three-loop calculation. The R-4 term respects N = 8 supersymmetry; hence this result poses the question of whether another symmetry could be responsible for the cancellation of the three-loop divergence. In this article we investigate possible restrictions from the continuous coset symmetry E-7(7)/SU(8), exploring the limits as a single scalar becomes soft, as well as a double-soft scalar limit relation derived recently by Arkani-Hamed et al. We implement these relations for the matrix elements of the R-4 term that occurs in the low-energy expansion of closed-string tree-level amplitudes. We find that the matrix elements of R-4 that we investigated all obey the double-soft scalar limit relation, including certain non-maximally-helicity-violating six-point amplitudes. However, the single-soft limit does not vanish for this latter set of amplitudes, which suggests that the E-7(7) symmetry is broken by the R-4 term.
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